Western-funded green groups ‘stir up trouble’ in China

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Beijing think tank is wrong on "a major reason for the suspension of the US$3 billion Myitsone Dam" assumption. A major reason was because the people do not like China's Myitsone Dam Project. “If we destroyed China's Great Wall, China will be really angry. ... We don't want them to destroy our natural heritage,” Hkanhpa Tu, the joint secretary of Kachin National Council.

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Beijing think tank blames environmentalists for damaging China's reputation in Mekong region

In another case, protests led by the Kachin Development Networking Group in Myanmar, a network of Kachin civil society groups, was a major reason for the suspension of the US$3 billion Myitsone Dam - the largest hydro power project in Myanmar - by the China Power Investment Corporation, according to the studies.

The Kachin group compiled two reports, in 2007 and 2011, highlighting the social and ecological impact of the enormous dam designed to flood an area the size of Singapore, and displace as many as 10,000 ethic Kachins in the restive northeast of the country. The dam will provide power mostly to cities in nearby Yunnan province.

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1298716/western-funded-green-groups-stir-trouble-china